Language Issue Quotes

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

'Nuclear' is nothing but trouble. Do you say 'new-clear' or do you say 'nuke-you-ler'? Whoever invented that word had obviously never studied the human mouth. We don't have enough muscles in our face to make that group of letters come out smoothly. The word is missing a middle syllable, for cryin' out loud.

I don't know what the word is in Austrian.

If you don't speak Spanish, then don't accuse me of insulting you in that language, let alone insulting you ten times.

I think communication is so firsbern.

The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.

In 'Expendables 2,' there was a lot of vulgar dialogue in the screenplay. For this reason, many young people wouldn't be able to watch this. But I don't play in movies like this. Due to that, I said, 'I won't be a part of that if the hardcore language is not erased.'

The biggest problem of all is that it's very difficult to tell my daughter, 'Swearing is not clever or funny,' because I earn a living by swearing.

[Referring to immigrants:] They're all over the place, and they don't speak English. Do we want more of this?

The main issue when it comes to hiring someone from Asia is the language barrier. It's difficult to book someone when they don't speak the language and they can't deliver the lines or even speak to the director. But in terms of Asian-American actresses, we all speak it fluently!

They've got so many Latin players we're going to have to get a Latin instructor up here.

Christian' makes a poor adjective

My fitness trainer's English, my physio's English, some of my friends are English. I don't have a problem with English people at all.

I bought a new Japanese car, I turned on the radio ... I don't understand a word they're saying.

The President goes around the country speaking Spanish. The only thing he has to say about jobs is “Hasta La Vista.”

You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.

Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America.

Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.

President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction was mixed, however, as people were trying to figure out which one was which.

I'm a Yente and I have a terrible accent.

The phrasing didn't work as well.

It's a tough accent. It's difficult for actors who are not Kiwis.